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The 404 1,301: Where we're beyond reasonable doubt (podcast)
2013-07-11 21:49:29| CNET News.com
Tune into this episode to hear how you can win $404 in our Comic-Con 2013 SuperWeakness contest! Today's rundown also includes a discussion of Jay-Z's business strategies, the real wealth of popular hip hop artists, and a creepy smartphone app that lets you see what you'd look like with plastic surgery. [Read more]
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Fizzy drinks firms merger in doubt
2013-07-09 09:24:37| BBC News | Business | UK Edition
The merger between AG Barr and Britvic is in doubt despite being given formal approval by the Competition Commission.
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Future of UK offshore wind power in 'serious doubt'
2013-07-09 07:44:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: The future of offshore wind power generation in the UK is in serious doubt, as the government's plans to encourage new windfarms are over-expensive and flawed, a new thinktank study has found. The left-leaning Institute for Public Policy Research has found that the government has done too little to attract wind turbine manufacturers to set up in the UK, with the result that only a small proportion of the tens of billions of expected investment in offshore wind will benefit British manufacturers....
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Draxs Sole Bid for Carbon Capture Funds Casts Doubt on EU Goals
2013-07-05 11:21:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Bloomberg: A European Union program to fund as many as 12 carbon capture projects attracted only one bid for the emissions-trapping technology, a proposal submitted by a venture between Drax Group Plc (DRX), Alstom SA (ALO) and BOC Group Ltd. The White Rose project applied under the second phase of the European Commissions NER300 program, said an official for the Capture Power Ltd. venture who asked not to be identified. It was the sole carbon-capture plan, the EC said on its website. The failure of the program,...
Conspiracy theorists are more likely to doubt climate science
2013-06-16 16:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Mother Jones: In recent years, a persuasive theory of how and why people deny science and reality has emerged. It's called "motivated reasoning"--and was described at length in Mother Jones (by me) back in 2011. Here's the gist: People's emotional investments in their ideas, identities, and worldviews bias their initial reading of evidence, and do so on a level prior to conscious thought. Then, the mind organizes arguments in favor of one's beliefs--or, against attacks on one's beliefs--based on the same emotional...
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